Performance Art

This volume investigates performance cultures as rich and dynamic environments of knowledge practice through which distinctive epistemologies are c...

Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere is the first interdisciplinary analysis of performance art in East, Central and Southeast Europe under ...

Theatre Studios explores the history of the studio model in England, first established by Konstantin Stanislavsky, Jacques Copeau and others in the...

This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have w...

Insightful, provocative and now in paperback, The Cultural Impact of RuPaul’s Drag Race is a collection of original material that goes beyond simpl...

Colombian artist María Teresa Hincapié (1956–2008) was one of the most influential figures of Latin American body art. This volume accompanies an e...

In Abject Performances Leticia Alvarado draws out the irreverent, disruptive aesthetic strategies used by Latino artists and cultural producers who...

In Abject Performances Leticia Alvarado draws out the irreverent, disruptive aesthetic strategies used by Latino artists and cultural producers who...

This book is a manifesto. It is about rethinking performance autoethnography, about the formation of a critical performative cultural politics, abo...

Theatre Studios explores the history of the studio model in England, first established by Konstantin Stanislavsky, Jacques Copeau and others in the...

That Shakespeare thematized time thoroughly, almost obsessively, in his plays is well established: time is, among other things, a 'devourer' (Love'...

The great Shakespeare Jubilee festival was held at Stratford, under the direction of David Garrick. The occasion was the dedication of the new town...

The works of interdisciplinary artist Kira O’Reilly use the uncertain boundaries of bodies as the starting point for their enquiry. Specifically, O...

From its very beginnings, theatre has been both an art and a public space, shared by actors and spectators. As a result, its entity and history is ...

This book addresses the ways in which masculinity is negotiated, constructed, represented, and problematized within operatic music and practice. Al...

These studies take stage history as a means of knowing the play. Half of the studies deal with casting - doubling, chorus and the crowd, the star o...

Throwing fresh light on a much discussed but still controversial field, this collection of essays places the presence of Italian literary theories ...

This book gives a new view on the legacy of Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999), one of the central, and yet misunderstood, figures who shaped 20th-century...

For producers and directors planning a production, several questions inevitably arise: Which play is appropriate for the contemporary audience? Sho...

This anthology is the first of its kind. In addition to opening up fresh perspectives on theatre studies – with applications for dramatic criticism...

The performance artist Joanna Frueh has emerged over the past twenty-five years as a wildly original voice in feminist art. Her uninhibited perform...

The performance artist Joanna Frueh has emerged over the past twenty-five years as a wildly original voice in feminist art. Her uninhibited perform...

Providing new insight into the well-known tradition of acting, Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting is the first book to contextualise ...